Tom Stoppard quotes - page 4
Tom Stoppard is a British playwright and screenwriter, acclaimed for his inventive use of language and complex themes. His works, such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "Arcadia," have had a significant impact on modern theater. He is renowned for blending wit, philosophy, and humor in his writing. Here are 209 of his quotes:
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships - and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes - husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.
Tom Stoppard
I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. I suddenly realised why. To everyone present, discussion was the whole point of drama. That was why the faculty had been endowed - that was why all those buildings had been put up! I had undermined the entire reason for their existence.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
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Occupation: English Dramatist
Born: July 3, 1937
Quotes count: 209
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